3dmark2000, 3dmark06 results on both Wine and Vista

[Scott Ritchie]

One note of caution is that video card manufacturers have been known to
blatantly cheat on these tests by rigging their drivers with special
hacks when they detect 3dmark is running.  As far as I know the code may
still be there.

Since the Linux drivers probably don't have these hacks, if they are
indeed still enabled you wouldn't get an Apples:Apples comparison even
on the same hardware.

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie

On 05/01/2010 11:08 AM, Dan Kegel wrote:
> I did some apples-to-apples 3d benchmarking today on a dual boot system.
> It looks offhand like Windows is about twice as fast as Wine on these
> benchmarks on my system.
> 
>  cpu:  e8400
>  ram: 4GB
>  video card: nvidia GT 240
>  Ubuntu 32 10.04 video drivers: 195.36.15
>  Vista 64 video drivers: 8.17.11.9713
> 
> Test procedure:
> 
> On Ubuntu, grab latest wine from git, apply patch from
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9210
> so 3dmark06 will run.
> On Windows, install cygwin and a few of its packages (cabextract,
> wget, svn, etc.)
> Then on both systems do
>   svn checkout http://winezeug.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ winezeug
>   sh winezeug
>   sh yagmarktest
> 
> That will run the tests in a loop and save a report for each run in
> the current directory.
> 
> Results at http://kegel.com/wine/yagmarkdata/e8400/
> 
> Summary:
> Ubuntu: 6 runs
> 3dmark2000:  min 4145, median 4154, max 4170
> 3dmark2001:  min 18884, median 19261, max 19520
> 3dmark2006:  min 17315, median 18154, max 18498
> 
> Vista: 2 runs:
> 3dmark2000:  8206,  8219
> 3dmark2006:  30278, 32384
> 
> Notes:
> 1) 3dmark2001 hangs for me on vista 64 bits, so no results for that
> test on that OS, I had to
> edit yagmarktest to remove it from the loop.  Does it work for anyone else?
> 2) nvidia drivers occasionally crash X when running or quitting
> 3dmark2000 or 3dmark06; it's happened to me three times.
> 3) test script is fragile, don't touch the mouse or keyboard while it's running
> 4) shadows appear to be missing on wine in firefly forest in 3dmark06
> and giant mecha truck test in 3dmark01?
> 5) format of my log files is ugly and will change.
> 
>